Yearbook Reflection

When I join yearbook I planed to improve my skills with the computer programs and work together as a group to put together the best yearbook that the school has had so far. Last year I always had trouble with the software and was making a lot of mistakes and this year I wanted to become better at it. This way I would be able to help others because in yearbook we are all working as part of a group to get things done.

At the begining of yearbook I first started out helping brainstyorm ideas as a group. Then we were ssigned pages. I worked on picking out layouts for the junior pages, creating the juinior candid page, taking pictures, and editing pages like the sophomore candid page that needed a lot of work done to fix it up.

For me I felt that I worked so much better this year then I did the last year. I got good at the software and was even able to help others out and solve problems. I remember once Ms. Todorff was having a problem with the layout and I was able to fix it which made me very proud and showed my improvment. As a group we worked together to put together the best yearbook yet and I really think that it is. I looked through the pages when it came out and it seemed like we all halped each other to do a very good job.

I feel accomplished. I feel like I am ready for next year. The seniors always have the most responisblity when it comes to putting the yearbook together and so when I am a senior next year I have to be able to be ready to take on this responsibblity. The seniors have to know the most about the software and putting things together so they can help the underclassmen who are just joining. I felt many accomplishment many times over the year like when I was put in charge of heading design, "I found something that looked nice and fit well with the themes of the yearbook. In the end I showed my design to everybody on the committ and they all liked it a lot and decided to use it. It felt nice to do something creative and independent for the yearbook and then have everybody like it and what to use it." I felt acomplished like that many times over the year. I set out to learn new skills of the software and that I did learn them and now can help others.

I interacted with people in two different ways during the course of yearbook, either they helped me or I helped them. I think that this shows that yearbook is a group where we all have to work together to get things done. If people had a question I would always try to help and if I was struggling people would try to help me.

I percived growth in myself and a greater ease using computers. I was first nervous about being a senior next year and being in charge but now I have percived a growth in understanding of how to run the yearbook and so I am ready for next year.

I like this activity. I think that its a great way to be creative and learn how to organize and set things uop using computers. Computers are only going to become greater parts of are lives and so it is great to have a oppritunity to learn to use them better. I also just loving being able to put to getter something that everybody can look at and enjoy.

This activity ment to me that I could learn new things that I was struggling with. I remember last year how people had to completly re do my pages because I had messed them up do badly that they could not be saved. This year I needed much less help which made me proud that I could improve and I was also helping others. This showed me that I just had to stick with it to get better.

This was a valuable activity because it is a fun way to work on a big project that the who school gets to see. The value of this activity is that it benifits so many people who are not in yearbook. We are making something that has to be good because the gets to see it. People like yearbooks because they help people keep memories of the year that has gone by so it is iomportant to make sure they get the best yearbook possible.

I think I deffinatly did measure up to the eight learniong outcomes. I was able to develop many new skills which is showed throughout the journal entries. At first I was lost when it came to computers and designing things but by the end I felt that I could do it and even help other like on the meeting on January 23, "Then we relized that there was a mistake in one of my pages because one of the pictures was a double and it needed to be taken out. The yearbook leader could not figure out how to fix it and so it seemed as if we would have to delete these pages and I would have to start all over again. Then after i worked on it for awhile I was able to figure out how to delete the doubled picture and save these pages" Also I think that yearbook is all about working together to make the best yearbook possible and so I deffinatly met this outcome as well, like on the meeting of March 28 where I was helping others on my team to make a page better, "After that I helped other student with the MUN page because I was on the trip and could offer ideas on what to do to make the page better."

My goals were perfect for this activity. This is because with one meeting a week and the possibility to do work from home it made it gave me a lot of time to improve. Also with so many people in yearbook there is many people to ask for help and so that also makes arriving at my goals tangible.

In yearbook I ended up learning thing that can be applied in real life. One major thing is that I learned that though I am bad at something this will not always stay thins way and that I will get better. Especially because it is computers I am getting better with and the bloom of technology it will be very helpful to have computer skills in real life. I am glad that I got the time this year to work on the yearbook and learn all these things.